Re: [PATCH followup] mm: get rid of CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP || CONFIG_IA64

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 03:09:21 EST


> Hi Kosaki,
>
> On Wed 20-04-11 09:33:26, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > While I am in the cleanup mode. We should use VM_GROWSUP rather than
> > > tricky CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP||CONFIG_IA64.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Now, VM_GROWSUP share the same value with VM_NOHUGEPAGE.
> > (this trick use the fact that thp don't support any stack growup architecture)
>
> I am not sure I understand you. AFAICS, VM_GROWSUP is defined to non 0
> only if CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP||CONFIG_IA64 (include/linux/mm.h).
> And we use it to determine whether expand_stack_growsup[*] should be
> defined (in include/linux/mm.h).
>
> The patch basically unifies the way how we export expand_stack_growsup
> function and how define it (in mm/mmap.c).
>
> So either we should use CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP||CONFIG_IA64 at both places
> or we should use VM_GROWSUP trick. I am for the later one.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> ---
> [*] the previous patch renamed expand_growsup to expand_stack_growsup.

Right you are. sorry.



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